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Liza is a poet and philosopher, born and living in Jerusalem.  

Her work is a poetic evocation of the existential challenges of a meaningful life; she is interested in what it means to touch life and live it, in its physical struggle, honestly. Her first book, Recovering the Pain, considers what it means not to avoid the pain of living, and her second, How We Are with One Another, considers what it takes to be human with one another. Liza regularly teaches in literature, existential philosophy, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, religion, and music. She holds a PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley and is presently a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Shalem College in Jerusalem. 

What does it mean to live in the deepest part of the experience?  In her expression, Liza moves slowly toward touching the "lived-through," attending to the subtle, hidden contours of our lives.  Her writing grasps at difficulty, sincerity, intimacy, struggle, longing, starvation, and love; modes of significance that entangle a person most deeply in life.  

Liza’s intellectual work goes beyond interpretation, it is itself a work of literature.